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October 2008 – Tickets for the forthcoming production of ‘Our Country’s Good’ are selling fast. The first two nights are nearly sold out. Even with two months to go, we recommend buying online at http://www.arconline.co.uk/ to make sure you don’t miss out. Education workshops are booking fast and so Vivid have decided to offer ‘Our Country’s Good’ & Brechtian Theatre workshops for the rest of the academic year (ending June 2009). See the ‘Our Country’s Good’ (LINK) page for further information.

September 2008 - Vivid Theatre Company is now officially an associate company of the Arc, Stockton-on-Tees. Please check back for further information.

September 2008 – Vivid’s first play of 2009 has been booked. David Mamet’s ‘Sexual Perversity in Chicago’ is the classic seventies comedy concerning sex, relationships and friendships (but definitely not love!). Current dates are 23rd – 25th April 2009 @ Arc. This play also marks our debut at the Theatre Royal Newcastle, playing in their Studio space on the 30th April 2009. Tickets for both are available at the venue box offices from January 2009.

September 2008 – Vivid actor/director Mark Edwards is co-running the first Theatre Royal Newcastle & RSC Teacher’s project. Designed for teachers of Shakespeare, the aims are to give tools, ideas and renewed enthusiasm for the Bard. Visit the blog at http://www.yerbard.blogspot.com/
Vivid Theatre Company was set up with the primary aim of creating clear, well acted work of both popular plays and new writing. The company will strive to provide high quality work in the theatrical, educational and corporate sectors.

May 2008 – Many thanks to all those who attended the successful production of two Classic British Plays recently. Feedback was excellent on both ‘The Local Stigmatic’ and ‘The Dumb Waiter.’ Audiences appreciated the doubling of the rarely performed, shocking ‘The Local Stigmatic’ with the classic ‘The Dumb Waiter.’ Again, thank you for all your support

April 2008 – as of July 2008, Vivid will be available for educational/corporate bookings across the country. If you have any specific needs regarding presentation skills/improvisational scenarios/syllabus specific educational needs (including the new 2008 AQA/OCR/EdExcel syllabuses) please email us. A new page on our website will be committed to this in the next month.

March 2008 – Vivid provided actors for a recent ‘Burlesque’ photo-shoot. This is the third time the company has provided performers for photography projects such as this. If you require actors for any such work, please email us with your requests.

March 2008 – after the successful ‘German Plays’ double bill, Vivid will be producing two more plays in rep later this year. ‘Our Country’s Good’ and ‘Female Transport’ are both plays concerning convicts being sent to Australia late in the 18th century. Venues will be announced shortly and casting will begin in the summer. If you are interested in auditioning, please email your CV to us for consideration. We will also be using North East acting agencies for this casting process.

February 2008 – Vivid was asked to participate in the ‘Full on Futures’ project by Creative Partnerships (at the Arc, Stockton-on-Tees). We worked with over two hundred young people over a period of two hectic days discussing the complexities of running a professional theatre company. Arc’s Education Office, Jenni Owen, commented on Vivid’s ‘professionalism and enthusiasm.’

January 2008 – Vivid is performing two classic British one Act plays at the Arc in April this year. ‘The Dumb Waiter’ by Harold Pinter and the rarely performed ‘The Local Stigmatic’ by Heathcote Williams will be presented at the Arc Studio and continue Vivid’s commitment to professional-level classic drama.

December 2008 – Vivid actor/director Daniel Nettle’s new book ‘Personality: What makes you the way you are’ is published by Oxford University Press. Please click on the following link for more information - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Personality-What-Makes-You-Way/dp/0199211426/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/026-9961187-4709207.

December 2008 – Many thanks to all our supporters for making the German plays rep season such a success. Audience response was excellent and Vivid played to sell out audiences for both ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ and ‘Woyzeck.’